Sandra Peters

Please join us on September 2, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the NYUAD Arts Center for the presentation of the sound installation SonicCube.

The sound sculpture SonicCube is based on an idea by Sandra Peters for a collaborative project. Musician and composer Sam Nester (NYC) conceived the composition; sound engineer João Menezes (UAE) provided the sound system operation.

Special thanks to Gleb Iarovoi for setting up the sound system, Tucker Russells and Nelson Reyes for installing the sculpture Wandering Spirit (2014), and Terri May for setting up the lights.

Please join us August 2, 2023 at 7:00 pm at Motto Books, Berlin for a conversation with Sandra Peters and Adam Feldmeth to present Peters’ new book Cut Cube. The book Cut Cube, 2022 results from my interest in the graphic interplay between two- and three-dimensional structures. The 11 possible ways to unfold a cube are laid out on white paper, whereas the seven cuts that make it possible to unfold a cube are printed on transparent paper and related to each of the six sides of each flattened cube. Turning pages generates a flow of information to make the viewer aware of the complex interplay between both types of structures. The book is published with Motto Books, Berlin/Lausanne. A book signing will follow the discussion.

Image Credit: Jens Ziehe

On March 17, Sandra Peters is presenting her artistic practice at Maumaus in context of the independent study programme. She is in conversation with art historian and curator Terri Geis (USA).

Please join us on March 4, 2023, at 4:00 PM at The NYUAD Project Space for a panel discussion about Performing the City with the artist Sandra Peters, Mona El-Mousfy, Architect and Architecture Consultant for the Sharjah Art Foundation, and George Katodrytis, Architect and Professor at the American University of Sharjah. The conversation will be moderated by the architect Tala Gharagozlou. Join the panelists as they take the ideas presented in the exhibition as a starting point and explore the meaning and potential of the development of public, semi-public, and liminal spaces in the urban landscapes of the UAE.

Image Credit: Ken Koch. Courtesy of the artist

Join me for the opening of my solo exhibition Performing the City, at the NYUAD Project Space on February 27, at 5.30 pm GST.
The exhibition serves as a platform for the interim presentation of a planned temporary outdoor sculptural installation at the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE) with the working title City Center / Nomadic Monads.

Image Credit: Ken Koch. Courtesy of the artist

Artforum Artguide promotes Un-folded Cube (landscape mode) at the Foyer-LA space as a must-see exhibition.

The floor sculpture Un–folded Cube (landscape mode) from 2022 and now on view at Foyer-LA in Los Angeles, results from my interest in the interplay between two- and three-dimensional structures. A cube can be unfolded in 11 possible ways. Forms of unfolded cubes, made of orange wool fabric, are laid out on the floor and folded along their diagonal axis. While the imagined cubes relate to the architecture of the exhibition space the un–folded forms suggest a landscape mode.

Photo © Connie Walsh

At the beginning of the New Year 2023, I look forward to welcoming you to the LAPIDAR group exhibition, curated by Stefan Pietryga and Mike Gesner at the Kunstraum Potsdam.

Photo © Jens Ziehe

On October 26, 2022, at 5:00 pm in the Reading Room at the NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, Sandra Peters will be in conversation with art historian Terri Geis and the NYUAD Art Gallery Director Maya Allison to present Peters’ new book CutCube.
The book is published with Motto Books, Berlin/Lausanne. A book signing will follow the discussion.

Photo © Jens Ziehe

The Berlin-based architect and critic Frank F. Drewes wrote an extensive book review on the monograph PER/TRANS Performing the Cube, Transforming the Cube, which can be found in the August 2022 edition of Bauwelt (No. 16).

In February 2022, Sandra Peters will release her artist book CutCube. The graphic translation is by Heimann & Schwantes, Berlin and the book will be published by Motto Books, Berlin/Lausanne.

In conjunction with the exhibition Sharjapan 3: Remain Calm: Solitude and Connectivity in Japanese Architecture, on view at Sharjah Art Foundation from 24 July to 1 October 2021, multidisciplinary artist Nile Koetting will discuss the themes of his ongoing installation, Remain Calm (Compressed +) with Assistant Arts Professor Sandra Peters at NYU Abu Dhabi. During the discussion, Koetting will touch upon questions related to space (physical, environmental and communal) and the navigation of precarious shifts between isolation, exclusion and connection as well as safety and risk, in a time of global crisis.
To register, please click on the headline.

Photo © Jens Ziehe

NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program presents a round-table discussion with Katia Arfara (NYUAD), George Katodrytis (AUS), and Sandra Peters (NYUAD) moderated by Laure Assaf (NYUAD).

In the NYU Psychology Seminar Series, Sandra Peters will reflect on her art practice through a psychological lens. The lecture is followed by a Q&A.
To join the lecture, please visit this link via Zoom:
https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98695460983

Photo © Werner Hannappel

Tashkeel presents a live online discussion exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on visual arts practitioners and the creativity borne from the challenges of limitation, loss, isolation and change. Join artists Altamash Urooj, Ana Escobar, Becky Beamer and Sandra Peters. There will be a chance to ask the artists questions during the session. Moderated by Lisa Ball-Lechgar, Tashkeel Deputy Director.

Photo © Jens Ziehe

Tashkeel presents COVID Conversations, a group exhibition by UAE-based artists and designers that reflect upon the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. By focusing on creative acts that seek to explore, understand and process responses and reactions to the pandemic, the exhibition aims to examine the highs and the lows of the psychological impact, and creativity borne from the challenges of limitation, isolation and change, whether positive or negative.

Photo © Sandra Peters

In collaboration with designers Heimann + Schwantes and the scholars of Kurator für Künstler / Curator for Artists, Berlin, I have worked on a new presentation of my work, which I am very happy to launch today!

Please have a look at my latest writing on a recent video work of mine!

The Southland Institute (for critical, durational, and typographic post-studio practices) has published a list of books worth reading.

City Center / Nomadic Monads is conceived of five approximately ten-foot-high columns based on various geometric forms (circle, triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon), each made of two-way mirror glass.

Installed temporarily in public space at the Sharjah Art Foundation, these objects allude equally to the glass curtain walls of corporate skyscrapers and to the bodies of passers-by.

Photography and visualisation © Sandra Peters and Ken Koch

Nomad Lab is a group show at the Quoz Arts Fest 2020 at Alserkal Aveneue in Dubai.

With works by Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Wendy Bednarz, Mari Calderon, Erin Collins, Scandar Copti, David Darts, Anna Kurkowa, Sandra Peters, Goffredo Puccetti, Laura Schneider, Erica Wu, Steven Wyks

Photo © Sandra Peters